A new study has revealed that the iconic Black Beauty meteorite contains much more hidden water than previously suspected.

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Russia's customs service says a 2.8-ton chunk of the Aletai meteorite was found in a shipping container, labeled as a garden ...

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A chunk of rock that blasted off Mars and crash-landed on Earth is turning out to be one of the richest archives of ancient Martian water ever found. New scans of the famous “Black Beauty” meteorite ...

The space rock has a 4.3% chance of striking the Moon in six years—and it could generate a flash nearly as bright as Venus.

A meteor — a particularly large and bright type known as a bolide meteor — detonated high above in the atmosphere Monday ...